The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1887-06-10
In WASHINGTON MARKET.
MORNING SCENES IN THE GREAT
EST MARKET IN THE COUNTRY.
Guarding the 300 stands From
ThievcS-RuSy Butchers Every
thing t,atablc Sold.

thing Eatablc Sold.
"The Sixth Avenue Elevated trains ri
4 80 O'Clock on spring mornings, says
New York correspondent of the Utl"t
Jou,nnl, are spar>cly occupied with
passengers. more than h;tit Of whom carry
Great empty baskets or wear the Ia':-h-
and ready raimcnt of markrtmcn. They
alight at the Park place station ami
scurrv down through narrow Str t.at
lead toward the North River. Ih", alc
on their WAY to Washington Market.
which occupies Il square on the west site
of Manhattan Island. 1t is always open.
A thief, IMMERSED i'll lis work in@>. would
imagine that he could walk of with some
OF the fresh meat hanging apparently
un@uarded at the stalls, but before he
would have time to take down his booty
one of the six watchmen on duty IN the
market would appear from its fe>hy
precincts and arrest him. Before leaving
his stall each meat dealer makes ont It list
of his wares exposed. The Watchmcn
carry IA corresponding list, and are held
responsible for the loss Of any goods by
theft. The six Watchmcn guard the 300
stands so closely that thieves find the
; o'clock the stands in the retail market
begin to open.
The cminently healthy butchers in the
place whistle merrily and several Of them
are cutting beef kidneys out of great
masses of fat and tossing the suet over
on counters, whence it will be taken to
the big factory known as the fat assoyia
ton. and there made up to the base of
genuine dairy butter" Beyond the
retail market, and bounded on one side
by the North River, is the wholesale de
partment of Washington Market. 1t
looks like street interscctcd community
of oncstory structures, pcoplcd with
carcasscs of beef, veal and mutton. and
crates of quacking, cackling fowls,
A Wheeling tug tows up to the wharf Il
lighter, on which are several refrigerator
cars that have been hurrying from Chi
cago with their loads of beef The car
casses are passed out of the car, hung on
hooks that move on iron ways
and thus rolled into great ice
houses, where the retail dealers have
already begun to come for their stock
On Friday and Saturday mornings busi-
ness begins at o'clock. BOOSTERS in the
crates full of fowl crow as biithcly as if
they were on their pcrchcs at home and,
not doomed prisoners Philadelphia i,
the great fowl-producing centre, and
many Washington Market firms display
plackards reading: Philadelphia poui-
try speciality
Four O'Clock comes and the retail de
partmcnt of the market has become quite
densely populated Half Of the 5000
persons who do business in and about the
market have already arrived and begun
to arrange their wares. few early pur
chasers are on hand for choice bargains.
Several shivering bummDrs who frequent
the place and sleep. Heaven knows where,
are standing about and looking wistlully
in at the windows of the little restaurants
in the market. They will, late in the
day. run the chance of earning an odd
dime or SO carrying baskets.
The poultry dealers have come and are
unpacking boxes of frozen turkeys. OF
the Western States Iowa is famous for
its frozen turkeys. which now sell at II
to ID cents pound. Vermont and
Rhode Island turkeys, however, sell for
20 to 90 cents.
On the bills of fare of recherche
restaurants one learns that prairie chicken
can be had. They are not in the market.
but long rows of Guinea hens are hang
ing there, and the brunette flesh of the
Guinea hen is palmcd off on the un
suspecting customer for prairie chicken.
Rows of adult pigeons that sell at $2. 30 |
a dozen are on sale, and clusters of young |
pigeons, alias squads, are worth - a
dozen.
At six o'clock the oyster stands are
peoplcd with files of oyster openers who
begin their unromantic toll of turning
5000 oysters Il day out of house and
home. These oyster openers get $3.50
a week and work from in the morning
until at night, and on Saturday until 10
Skilled oyster openers in other sections
of the city work for 81 thousand and
make $50 or more week. Angomania
has evidently entered into the game
trade. for English snipe are selling a,
So Is a dozen and sand snipe at but
$3.50.
Everything calablc is sold in this great
market. At one stand that has foreign
air and odor a customer is buying little,
hard, spiccd cakes from Germany. Over
another stand in the fish community is
placard announcing that the dealer has
worms that can be had there for 10
and IL cents dozen. They are sand
worms, used by fishermen for bait Over
tie fish stands hang bottles of cod liver
oil, and under one Of these bottles bic
cod, still alive. is gdspiny in horror, as ii
at the sight of the essence of an ancestors
liver
At 7O'cluck the stewards of the big hotels.
whCm the mari;ctmeH treat with great
Difference, begin to arrive. The steward
Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel is one of the
first in the field the Union Square Hotel
steward comes at 8 O'Clock, and Of Tay-
or's Hotel, in jersey City, half an hour
atcr. At that hour the business of the
market begins to be contusedIy brisk.
The marketmen cry thejF( wares, but do
t with an air of II don't care much
whether you buy N not" Everybody
eems Independent. He owns his stand
work from $4,000 upward, ,
md holds Il as long as he behaves him {
eli ant! pays his rent of - or more fort
ngb:. Failures in business are rare The
.ealcrs are healthy and contented, and to I
hem Washington Market is the universe {